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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Oh, Say We Can Seed, You Can Too! Activities & FREEBIES Part 2!

Stoked you came to visit our Part 2 AKGVH Oh, Say We Can Seed, You Can Too
Activities and FREEBIES!

In this next section
of our Seed Unit, we did some seed investigations.The pinto bean is the best bean to work with as it is
a nice size, the skin (outer coating) pulls off rather easily and the growing
process is very quick featuring strong visible roots, shoots and leaves. You
can actually view the seeds splitting open, shedding the skin and shooting out
its roots, leaves and stem which fascinates even the wee-est ones. First, I had my babes really take a good look
at their beans. We discussed the color, shape, design and size:

Next, I told my babes
to peel the skin off their bean. We did not soak the beans before we operated
on our beans and as you can see, my babes had no prob:

Then I instructed them
to open the seed up along the seam and find the baby plant inside....they were DIGGIN' the scene:

My wee ones are
growing beans in a jar and a wet paper towel at the bottom:

Day 1:

Then every day
they sprayed them...and
then.....a SPROUT!!!:

Day 4:

Day 6:

Day 10:

Day 13:

Next, I drew an outside scene featuring soil and water on a
quart sized zipper bag and wrote each child's name written on the white space
on the bag. Then my babes put in their beans and added a bit of water:

I added a bit of potting soil and taped the bags with the zipper open to
the window so my babes can watch them grow....somewhat like a mini terrarium:

Our
last seed
experiment was bird seeds on our initials. We have used grass seeds in
the past
but wanted to try bird seeds this time around as we have no grass seeds
currently. If these seeds do not sprout, we will get grass seeds and try
it again. But for now, they were delighted:

Then when their
initials were covered with seeds, they sprayed them down:

I sprinkled some potting soil over the seeds then sprayed the soil to dampen them:

One week later little sprouts begin to pop up:

Next we made bean pods. First I cut along the length of a TP tube, then I had my babes paint the inside:

I laid them out to dry
on a flat surface and after the inside dried, they painted the outside:

Once again I laid them
out to dry but before they were completely dry, I rolled them lengthwise into a
bean pod and clothes pinned them shut for @ 20 minutes:

Then I let them dry thoroughly.
I got a handful of beans and gave some to each of my babes. Using a glue gun, I
glued a dot on the inside middle, then had my babe to carefully place one bean
on the glue so as not to burn babe fingers:

Needless to say, they
were enthralled with their bean pods:

In our last section of
this unit we talked about how seeds grow using anchor charts:

We made How a Seed Grows
charts. You can get this craftivity printable for your classroom or homeschool from our EXCLUSIVE Vintage Seed Activity pack at our AKGVH Teacher's Notebook Store. Scroll down for the link:

Using their picture story
notebooks, I had my babes copy sentences about seeds and draw their own pictures:

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Charlene!!! So STOKED you stopped by & laid your linky party on us!!! We joined!!! Many thanks for your interest and if you are able to do some seed investigations with your babes, we would DIG on seeing it!!!

What fun!!! I love how even your little ones got in on the action! I actually used pinto beans to make a garden sensory bin this week... might grab a few of them and plant them too! Thanks for taking the time to share such an amazing unit :)

I am so STOKED you came to visit us, Leslie!!! I went over to your blog and GUESS WHAT???!!! I found your Seed Sensory Garden post and added it to my list above!!! WOW, what an ASSET to my list!!! I followed your Google Friends Circle as well!!! Hope to visit again soon!!!

AH!!! DIG your blog, joined your circle!!! Just do NOT know how you do ALL that writing along with everything else!!! My goodness!!! I just LOVE your adorable boys!!! They look like they have so much homeschooling fun, cooking, arts & crafts, exercise, and MORE!!! Why I am just DIGGIN' your scene!!! So very STOKED you came by to visit!!! Hope to visit once again real soon!!!

Oh, my goodness....I do NOT know if I am all that as it has taken me decades to collect ideas and after awhile, it just comes to you....but now I wonder how I did it all in days gone by....the older I get it seems like time goes by so much faster & I cannot seem to get the things done during the day like I used to or maybe it just appears that way....I do not know but I do wonder how other mothers homeschool, take care of their babes & blog just about everyday as it takes me a week or 2 of intense writing & assembling photos and get my vintage printables web friendly just to write one post...so very glad you stopped by and commented...I hope you come to visit again very soon!!

hello, Kelly my friend!!! Stoked you visited us once again! I am out of town currently so I will not be able to visit until I get back home, but rest assured when I do, I will be visiting Raising Samuels right away!! I am not doing well with the computer I am on now everything is os very strange but when I get home o my own computer, I will be sharing another post on #SocialButterflySunday!!! See you then!!!